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Personal secretaries used to be fairly common, and don't have to be viewed with disrespect. If you ever work in a large institution, you learn that the secreta
by username223 11y ago
Personal secretaries used to be fairly common, and don't have to be viewed with disrespect. If you ever work in a large institution, you learn that the secretaries know more about how the organization works than you ever will, and can make your life much better. Most people accept that specialization and division of labor are part of the modern industrial economy.
Knuth is an oddball curmudgeon, and probably a bit autistic (watch his lectures), but he has managed to make the most of his strengths, and contributed to humanity with very little damage.
- wund 11y agoName 3 secretaries that are as famous as Donald Knuth.
- vidarh 11y agoWhat does fame have to do with anything?
- herbiv 11y agoWell, fame is an indication for what the society value. How else would you measure it? Money? Respect? Something else? Which of these measures secretaries are good at?
- username223 11y agoName 3 that are as loathed as Donald Rumsfeld. Point taken, though: secretaries should be better paid.
- smitherfield 11y agoJoseph Stalin and Martin Bormann come to mind.
- ZoF 11y agoWhat? That's an odd tangent. He never implied there are famous secretaries.
- fondux 11y agoDoesn't matter if he implied or not. What I'm arguing is that we would see famous secretaries if it was really a respectable job.